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Instrument: Saxophone
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Yacine Boulares
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Described by Radio France internationale as “a Tunisian man in New York, one of the most talented jazzmen of his generation” Yacine Boulares is a French-Tunisian saxophonist and composer based in Brooklyn. After graduating from the Paris National Conservatory Yacine moves to New York on a Fulbright scholarship in 2009 to attend the New School for Jazz and Contemporary music. New York exposes him to a myriad of different musics. Soon he starts touring with Fela Kuti's ex drummer Jojo Kuo and Haitian Kompa legends Tabou Combo. In their musics he finds a deep echo to his Tunisian roots. These influences urge him to seek his own identity and his explorations of North & West African rhythms lead to the creation of AJOYO, a mystic brew of African tradition, jazz and soul
Pianist/Composer Jesse Fischer Announces West Coast And London Dates
Brooklyn-based pianist to follow up successful Jazz Road tour of the Midwest in 2021 with three West Coast dates and a London headline debut, performing music from Resilience (2020) and Flipped II (2018). Performance dates will coincide with the release of em>Resilience (Recharged), a newly remixed and reimagined version of the title track of Resilience, with ...
The French Scene - Part 3
by Ludovico Granvassu
As we continue our journey in today's French jazz scene, we look at how it has been influenced by the many musical traditions that enrich the French society, in particular those from North Africa and the Middle-East, courtesy of Yacine Boularès, Ibrahim Maalouf, Naïssam Jalal, Smadj and Sophie Alour with Mohamed Abozekry and Wassim Halal). To ...
Abu Sadiya
Label: Accords Croisés
Released: 2018
Track listing: Dar Shems (The House of The Sun); Disappearance; Bahriyya (The Water Spirits); Interlude I; Takhmira (A Trance); Mirage; Demian; Qmar (Prayer to the Moon); Interlude II; Sadiya; Nuba-Resilience.
Destination Africa! Part I: Mali, Morocco & Tunisia
by Ludovico Granvassu
In this episode we'll explore jazz by African musicians and by foreign musicians fascinated with the African continent and its music, with a special focus on Mali, Morocco and Tunisia. Happy Listening! Playlist Ben Allison Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Daniel Freedman All Brothers" from Bamako ...
Yacine Boulares: Abu Sadiya
by Neri Pollastri
Il sassofonista e clarinettista di origini tunisine Yacine Boulares presenta qui un'interessantissima suite di musica originale, ispirata però ad Abu Sadiya, mitica figura dell'XI secolo appartenente alla tradizione tunisina che Boulares ha conosciuto attraverso i racconti del padre. Originario dell'Africa sub sahariana, probabilmente del Mali, giunto in Tunisia alla ricerca della figlia rapita e ridotta in ...
Yacine Boularès: Coltrane by way of Descartes
by Ludovico Granvassu
Saxophonist Yacine Boularès took the road less travelled to discover and develop his passion for jazz. After graduating in philosophy from the prestigious Sorbonne University in Paris, he felt the urge to put into practice the notions of aesthetics he had researched for his dissertation. Following his studies at Paris' Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique and ...
2018 Winter Jazz Festival Preview & 2017 Highlights (Part 2)
by Ludovico Granvassu
Welcome to the second episode of Mondo Jazz dedicated to previewing some of the international artists that will be performing at the 2018 Winter Jazz Festival. It features music by and interviews with Lucia Cadotsch, Yazz Ahmed, Yacine Boulares and Guilhelm Flouzat as well as some 2017 gems by James Brandon Lewis, Fabrizio Puglisi as well ...
Ajoyo: Ajoyo
by Chris M. Slawecki
Multi-reed player Yacine Boulares has picked up, and left behind, musical footprints literally all around the world. He was born in North Africa (Tunisia) but grew up in Paris, where he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne and jazz performance at the National Conservatory and New School for Jazz. As a Fulbright scholar, Boulares continued his musical ...